A 2014-2015 Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Resident, Chris Sauter’s exhibition is inspired by his time in Berlin and current events. While in residence at the Künsterhaus Bethanian, Sauter took interest in the posters wheat pasted along the city’s streets. He made three-dimensional loudspeakers out of layers of the posters and re-sited them how they were found. Discussing the dissemination and receiving of information and role of language in the era of alternative facts, Chris’ exhibition at BSC will feature new loudspeaker reliefs and other sculptures whose forms are familiar to us as methods of communication. Opening reception is Thursday, June 1st from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Augmented Reality examines what impact the digital landscape has on our three-dimensional reality. With our always increasing consumer culture, techniques of illusion, and how we engage with one another and ourselves online, the mediated experience seeps into everyday experience. Sedentary activism, the latest trend of cyberspace, manifests as the liking of a post, “heart-ing” of a photograph, and deleting of an iPhone app. These political statements become “actions” to be observed by fellow smartphone globalists. Augmented Reality is a critical look at digital escapism and current control techniques of our ongoing spectacular society. Through a variety of perspectives, we explore the filters we apply to our “real” world and ones applied for us. The selected works examine desire, status, the currency of perceived experience, histories of illusions as inherent to nature and human interest, and the debris of a day to day life specifically lives mediated and lived through screens. Participating artists include Susi Brister, Kris Pierce, Randy Bolton, Frank Benson, Nancy de Holl Yoonmi Nam.

Marcus Haydock Insurrection

Jun 1 - Sep 3, 2017

Insurrection, an exhibition of black and white photography by British artist Marcus Haydock, is a narrative of lived, felt, and seen moments

British artist Marcus Haydock was born in London, grew up in Sheffield and now lives and works in Brighton. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, the Latvian State Museum, Riga, and Photofusion, London. In July 2016 Marcus published the photobook Insurrection. Marcus attempts to explore the human condition and our relationship to images from a psychological perspective.The opening reception for this exhibition is Thursday, June 1st at 6:00 p.m., with an artist talk by Marcus Haydock at 7:00 p.m.